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L. A DOUILLET.

BUTTON.

No. 440,020. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF Ion.

LOUIS A. DOUILLET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,020, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed December 31, 1889- Serial No. 335,512. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 11mg concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS A. DOUILLET, a citizen of the Republicof France, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved means of fastening solid pearl, wood, ivory, celluloid, bone, or similar buttons to the fabric or leather on which they are used.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a button, showing my improved means of attachment prior to the uniting of the parts. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the button fixed to thefabric or leather. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation exhibiting another form of button.

The solid button proper 1 may be the represented or any other shape desired. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 it has a rounded or globular appearance, while in Fig. 4. it is shown flattened. The first of these forms would customarily be adopted where the button is to be used to receive a spring-stud in such classes of f2tSt6I1- ing as is adopted for use on gaiters or gloves and similar articles where one flap bears the button-hole member and the other a stud adapted to enter the same. The form shown in Fig. 4, on the other hand, while adapted for the same use, may also be used as a button to receive around its neck the ordinary button-hole. The solid part 1 may be made of any material desired-for example, of wood, bone, ivory, celluloid, zylonite, gutta-percha, pearl, and even of metal. It has on its under side a recess 2, preferably dome-shaped at top, as shown at 3, and having kerf 4 flaring into the body of the button, and the inner wall 5 of which forms a spreader or anvil for the upper edge of the eyelet 6. This eyelet is preferably made as shown, having a flange 7 at one end and slightly flaring toward the other end.

In fixing the button to the article on which it is to be used the flaring eyelet is passed through a hole in the fabric or leather, so that the latter will rest against its flange. The recess of the solid button 1 is then placed over the eyelet and the two parts are then forced together, so that the edge of the eyelet is turned'over by the anvil 5 and is retained by the flaring walls of the kerf, and the button is firmly held to the fabric or leather. lVhen so made, the button is, as shown in Fig. 2, adapted to receive a spring-stud 8 (shown in dotted lines) on another flap of the glove or other article, which thus acts in connection with the button-hole to retain the two flaps together.

When the part 1 of the button is made of pearl or similar material, the recess 2 is cut therein either before or after shaping and polishing, and the kerf 4 is then out in with a bit or otherwise.

Having thus described my invention, the following is'what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The socket member of a glove-fastener, consisting of a head of pearl or other material having an outwardly-flaring annular kerf, a flanged open-ended eyelet expanded by contact with the walls of said flaring kerf when pressed into its seat and retaining the material by means of its flange, and with a central cavity for the reception of a spring-stud, substantially as herein set forth.

LOUIS A. DOUILLET. Witnesses:

HARRY E. KNIGHT, GEORGE S. BELL. 

